Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations (UN)
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
55 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35740
Legacy PEIN ID:
75743
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Environmental management
Abstract
This report presents an overview of the global assessment landscape and highlight elements of best practice with respect to the future undertaking of major assessments. It includes an analysis of existing and ongoing sub-regional and regional assessments from a multi-thematic perspective. An assessment process brings together diverse strands of knowledge in a way that is useful for decision making. Assessment is a key mechanism for strengthening the relationship between science and policy, and is a crucial practice through which science informs decision making. It can establish the importance of an issue, provide an authoritative resolution of policy-relevant scientific questions, demonstrate the benefits of policy options, identify new research directions and provide technical solutions (NAS 2007, p. 1). It can also demonstrate the risks and costs of different policy options.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations (UN)
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
55 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35740
Legacy PEIN ID:
75743
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 08-May-2009
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022